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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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Edmund Spencer
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Common
Death
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For of the soule the bodie forme doth take For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives all else is claimed by death.
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There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.
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Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife And fretting grief the enemy of life All these and many evils more, haunt ire.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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